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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
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bible
bitter
childish
childish-beliefs
guide
guides
home
ignorance
ignore
imagine
invade
leader
leaders
library
resentment
school
science
shame
the-bible
thought
uneducated
unimaginative
unthinking
writing
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Isaac Asimov |
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"But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on the computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so. You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. You look at the ceiling, and over at the clock, yawn, and stare at the paper again. Then, with your fingers poised on the keyboard, you squint at an image that is forming in your mind -- a scene, a locale, a character, whatever -- and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear what that landscape or character has to say above the other voices in your mind."
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file
focus
how-to-write
imagine
quiet
writer
writing
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Anne Lamott |
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
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imagine
know
money
old
sarcasm
young
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Oscar Wilde |
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I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
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imagine
imagining
natural
writer
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Joan Didion |
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It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.
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imagine
messages
survival
survive
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Joan Didion |
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***A KEY WORD*** Imagined
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imagine
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Markus Zusak |
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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
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flee
flight
haruki-murakami
imagination
imagine
japan
japanese
murakami
reality
the-wind-up-bird-chronicle
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Haruki Murakami |
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"Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something you've made your own, something for you to be remembered by, something that, perhaps years later, your children and grandchildren can visit and get a view of your life in. It's part of your creativity, your hard work... it's your property. Now suppose you decide to go camping for a couple of weeks. You lock your door and assume that nobody is going to break in... but they do, and when you return home, to your horror you find that not only do these trespassers break in, but they also have quite uniquely imaginative ways of disrespecting, vandalizing and corrupting everything within your property. They light fires on your lawn, your topiary hedges are in heaps of black ashes. There's some blatantly obscene graffiti splattered across your front door, offensive images and rude words splashed on the walls and windows. Your television has been tipped over. Your photographs of family and friends have had the heads cut out of them. There's mold growing in the refrigerator, bottles of booze tipped over on the table, and cigarette smoke embedded into the carpeting. Your beloved houseplants are dead, your furniture has been stripped down and ruined. Basically, the thing you've spent years working for and creating within your lifetime has been tampered with to the point where it is just a grim joke.
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books
copyright
fanfiction
funny
geek
ghost
grave
house
imagine
metaphor
pervy
respect
sherlock
vandalism
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Rebecca McNutt |
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When people don't know what's going on, it's human nature for them to imagine a version that's ten times worse than the truth!
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human-nature
imagine
leadership
truth
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Kenneth H. Blanchard |
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I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
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bigger
bladder
empty
imagine
meet
pee
stranger
universe
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John Scalzi |
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"And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'd been thinking of: taken together, didn't they contain the two words that said it all about this city, the two words that really mattered? It seemed to him that they did. Two words: the one an invitation, the other an ideal, an adventure, a necessity. "Imagine" said the garden. "Freedom" said the tower. Imagine freedom. That was the spirit, the message of this city he loved. You really didn't need anything more. Dream it and do it. But first you must dream it."
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freedom
imagination
imagine
inspirational
new-york-city
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Edward Rutherfurd |
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We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.
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fitz
fool
head
heart
imagine
longing
smile
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Robin Hobb |
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Imagine. Freedom. Always.
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always-and-forever
forever
freedom
imagine
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